Homesick and alone, a teen-aged girl has just arrived in Seoul to work in a factory. Her family, still in the countryside, is too impoverished to keep sending her to school, so she works long, sun-less days on a stereo-assembly line, struggling through night school every evening in order to achieve her dream of becoming a writer. Korea’s brightest literary star sets this complex and nuanced coming-of-age story against the backdrop of Korea’s industrial sweatshops of the 1970’s and takes on the e...
Ready For The World - Driver's Education (Ready for the World, #1)
by Charmeljun Gallardo
Twenty-two-year-old Charlie Wong, having grown up in New York's Chinatown as the older daughter of a Beijing ballerina and a noodle maker, is torn between her family duties in Chinatown and her escape into the world of ballroom dancing.
Detective Jack Yu returns in a pulse-pounding fifth investigation in New York's Chinatown Chinatown gang leader “Lucky” Louie was shot outside of a Chinatown off-track betting establishment on the thirteenth of January, and lay in a coma for 88 days, waking on Easter Sunday. The number 88 is a double-helix, double-lucky Chinese number; religion and superstition all lean Lucky’s way. But Detective Jack Yu, Lucky’s boyhood blood brother, fears his friend’s luck is about to run out. When Lucky e...
"Siddharth Arora lives an ordinary life in the New England suburb of South Haven, but his childhood comes to a grinding halt when his mother dies in a car accident. Siddharth soon gravitates toward a group of adolescent bullies, drinking and smoking instead of drawing and swimming."--
Mixing business with pleasure changes the entire script… Jihae Park’s icy heiress façade is quickly melting—all because of Colin Song. A fling with the sexy film producer could jeopardise her one shot at achieving her own success—and the movie they’re making together. But resistance proves futile. Even as Colin’s ulterior motives threaten to destroy their chance at a picture-perfect ending…
An Indie Next Pick In this atmospheric debut inspired by true events, Inara Erickson finds an elaborately stitched piece of fabric hidden in her deceased aunt's island estate. As she peels back the layers of secrets it holds, Inara uncovers a tragic truth that will shake her family to its core.
